Mike Morrison

If it’s the destiny of new tech to explode, make billions, then be disrupted…

I wonder what “rich ghost” companies like Google and Meta will do when their core products are no longer used, but they still have a mountain of money?

The scientific article is the album. What is a song?

Scientific publishing is still organized around bundles built for print. We use music’s shift from albums to streaming to argue why access and unbundling aren’t enough.

Shared standards are the missing layer for reusable, trustworthy science.

articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/how...

In a digital world, we are increasingly constrained by boundaries that no longer make sense. In a world of artificial intelligence, what does the bundle prevent us from seeing?

When you submit a paper to a conference/journal how do you find all your coauthors' emails to enter/copy into the form?

1. Make authors organize their info all in one place before submission to make it easier

2. Copy-paste from our last email thread together

3. Other?

Three “Scholar Replay” 2025 recap cards displayed side by side on a light background. Left card shows “Replay’25” and “Your Top Citations in 2025,” with a circular illustration of two people shaking hands and a footer panel listing “Most cited Paper: The Trust Game Goes to Hollywood” with “+218 citations this year.” Middle card titled “Your Citation Highlights in 2025” lists top citing fields with percentages (Computer Science 41%, Psychology 25%, Public Policy 18%, Economics 9%), then a “New Field Unlocked!” section reading “First cited in Urban Planning,” and a bottom “Biggest Mover” panel for “AI Ethics in the Age of Automation” with “185 citations this year.” Right card titled “Your 2025 Research Badges” shows two badge tiles: “Method Magnet” (high impact in methods research) and “Policy Whisperer” (influential in policy studies).

Who would like google scholar to give us a sleek "Your Year in Citations" replay like music apps do?

Instead of every app in your life doubling monthly prices for AI features, would you rather just hook apps to your OpenAI account and pay a 'gas bill' based on your usage?

That’s the exact idea! Plus, one of our projects is creating a digital simulation of a scientific conference, so each meeting is also an experienced progress update on that project 🤣

a woman speaking into a microphone with the words everyone should be voting for you on the bottom ALT: a woman speaking into a microphone with the words everyone should be voting for you on the bottom

I will follow your career with great interest! 😆 I just want scientific communications to be exactly as silly as the scientists themselves are offline.

You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.

I don’t now the answer, but I’m happy to learn the phrase ‘vanity referencing’ from you post! 😆

Is there a word-phrase to describe citations that are meaningful, ones that understand the context in which what they are citing was written & that use the cited work in ways that enhance their own - the opposite of 'vanity referencing' [1/2]
#AcademicSky
#AcWri
#AcademicWriting
#AcademicPublishing

Play a little game and choose the right icon for each role in science.

Play our CRediT Roles icon game/survey, and help make scientific authorship clearer and more accessible!
creditsurvey.sciux.org

#OpenScience #ScienceUX

ScienceUX weekly lab meeting showing off a simulation of crowd movements at a scientific conference

How we've started doing weekly meetings in our #ScienceUX volunteer lab: Presenting new designs to each other in a virtual scientific conference hall.

Come join the discord if you want to help improve science with better design!
discord.gg/rNjNv2Ss

The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.

I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action.

Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways.

www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

Sweet!

try again if you have time? Should be up now. You can hit 'skip to survey' to save reading the roles again.

(but no pressure if busy! You have already helped by finding the first bug haha)

dang! Checking... Thanks for trying.

Play a little game and choose the right icon for each role in science.

Play our CRediT Roles icon game/survey, and help make scientific authorship clearer and more accessible!
creditsurvey.sciux.org

#OpenScience #ScienceUX

Hu & Bentler (1999) with >130k citations selected for huge citation and moderate actual impact--see Nils' rationale that a lot of citation use is unthinking or to stop thinking.

What then is the prototype of prototypes for the moderate citation impact and moderate actual impact?

#SciComm community, I can use your help!
Please share:

1. Any resources or publications about developing a hands-on tabletop science outreach activity.
2. Any personal tips & tricks based on your experiences running this type of activities!

Thanks!

Same. Even in my own qual studies we’ve just had graphs of themes. I’ve seen some people add imagery or icons?

Usually the perk of qual studies is finding some really powerful quotes though. But would love to see some cool other approaches!

I've never seen a qualitative research paper with excellent figures (relevant, eye-catching, etc.).

They only rely on text and photos/screenshots to communicate.

#dataviz + #qualitative research seem opposed, no?

#scicomm #AcademicWriting

What are some other "actually kind and not evil" software companies you've had a pleasant experience with?

I'll start:
@blackmagicdesign.bsky.social video editor gives so much for free

Eagle.cool is DAM perfect for $30 lifetime

@obsidian.md - Happily pay $8 for cloud sync on their free app.

Same. But, I’m rebuilding my trust in some software companies after my positive Davinci Resolve experience. Learning to love again after my Adobe breakup is hard. Hope Canva doesn’t ruin it again. 😆

PSA: Last week, Affinity Studio (major Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop alternative) went completely 'free forever'.

Pro design software, now accessible to all PhD students. May start recommending this in my workshops.
www.affinity.studio/graphic-desi...

Atomic, continuous publishing is exactly what we’re building at @curvenote.com and @continuous.foundation!

Totally the future. But will be a huge norm shift for scientists from spending two years writing one big paper that then takes two more years to publish.

I see a huge opportunity for how the AT Protocol could reshape academic publishing. Imagine researchers publishing continuously and atomically — before, during, and after research projects — in public connected continuous streams of discovery and insight.

Haha of course! Honestly so much fun.

Of course!